The Martial Unity

Chapter 3475: Negative-Energy Exotic Matter

”Wormhole technology has found other uses in the manner that you yourself aim to use it in,” Lord Vakratunda remarked. ”Using wormhole technology to mount ambushes on one’s enemies. Using it to bypass defensive lines. Using it bypasses energy shields and so on and so forth. It changed the very foundations of warfare for a good ten years until the dwarves finally invented space anchoring technology, which makes the very fabric of space and time less ductile and malleable, making it more difficult to create a wormhole. And that is precisely why your plan cannot work as smoothly as you hope.”

His words reminded Rui of when the Evolutionary Army invaded the Panama Continent; his father had used the World Bridge technology to infiltrate the Evolutionary Army base and destroy them from the inside out. However, Supreme Commander Anthea had calmly installed space anchors to ensure that they couldn’t do it again.

That alone should have been the telling clue of everything Lord Vakratunda was telling him about. It was troubling news regardless, for it meant that the Dragon Emperor was likely protected by powerful space anchors that prevented him from being ambushed by wormhole attacks.

”After all, it’s possible not just to project people, but also project attacks itself,” Lord Vakratunda explained. ”After the creation of wormhole technology, there were ambushes of direct siege energy attacks being projected on unsuspecting pathwalkers. One of the top ten warriors in the past was also assassinated with an astronomically destructive onslaught from a giant who projected his attack through wormholes. So after space-time anchor technology was invented, every leader in the world, including me, uses it to ensure that they cannot be ambushed by a wormhole.”

”Damn...” Rui muttered. ”So when I got teleported by the light elves, I was just being an amateur who wasn’t familiar with the paradigms of the true world?”

”Yes, however, the blame lies with the dark elves more than you for that. They didn’t place any wormhole protections because they didn’t fathom that their sisters would betray them on such a deep level,” Lord Vakratunda explained patiently. ”And they were too far from any other continent for wormhole technology to reach them. There are heavy distance limits for wormholes that even we, who have harnessed the power of the Sun, are unable to achieve.”

”...I see, so you’re saying that teleportation to the Dragon Emperor is impossible because he has powerful space-time anchors in the region around him?” Rui raised an eyebrow.

”Correct, with the Dragon Emperor, he has even gone as far as to integrate space-time anchor technology into his own body,” Lord Vakratunda explained. ”As I’m sure you experienced, he has a powerful gravitational field from his body due to all the hyperdense matter packed into it. He leverages that gravitational field along with some other clever biotechnology to create space-time anchors out of his own mass. This makes it impossible to teleport near or around him with the wormhole technology of the modern era. I don’t know how powerful your wormhole technology is, but unless it vastly outstrips anything we have, it will not work.”

Rui fell into thought as Lord Vakratunda coolly dashed his hopes. ”My wormhole tech is from some powerful Mother of Nature of the light elves, who is now dead, of course. But it seemed quite powerful.”

”The elves have powerful wormhole technology,” Lord Vakratunda admitted. ”However, it isn’t powerful enough to breach a space-time anchor of a high caliber unless you pour a truly absurd amount of energy into it or have exotic matter negative energy at your disposal, which is extremely difficult to create and even harder to store.”

Rui’s eyes lit up at those words as an idea popped into his head.

He had copied elven teleportation technology.

And he knew for a fact that human civilization had exotic matter with negative energy that pried open their world bridge technology. Then wouldn’t he be able to penetrate the Dragon Emperor’s space-time anchors with the help of both of those?

”Do I really have to go back home and get it though...?” Rui groaned at the very thought of it.

Human civilization hadn’t yet synchronized its exotic communication technology with the non-technological communication technology of the true world, as the two of them ran on entirely different principles and mechanisms, so he wasn’t able to communicate with his father.

The time it would take for him to go to the Panama Continent, acquire the exotic matter that he needs, and then come back was too much considering the timelines that they had in mind.

There was no way for the Emperor of Harmony to send it to the Panama Continent quickly, either; their world bridge technology could not cross such massive distances, either, for they were gravely short on the energy needed.

Rui’s hope of trying to use it to amplify his own Worm Step technique was dashed, leaving him at step one the entire time. Rui didn’t know what he was going to do if he couldn’t figure out how to teleport to the Dragon Emperor very easily.

Could he possibly teleport right outside of the space-time anchor field and then get to the dragon and teleport away with him?

He didn’t think so, since the anchor would stop the second step.

Did that mean that he would fight the Dragon Emperor right then and there?

That was suicide, of course.

”Wait a second...” Rui’s eyes lit up with a hint of curiosity. ”What if I use the pluripotent exotic matter?”

The pluripotent exotic matter could alter its existence to take on the quantum wave function of any particle that it came in contact with, functionally becoming it in a manner that was entirely indistinguishable.

His attention returned to Lord Vakratunda with zeal. ”Do you have samples of the exotic matter that you referred to? The one that could be used to break through to the space-time anchor of the Dragon Emperor?”

Lord Vakrtunda raised an eyebrow. ”Samples, yes, but not enough for what you need.”

Rui smiled with confidence. ”Don’t worry, even the tiniest speck will be enough for my purposes.”